On Friday 02 of December 2011 18:57:43 Mark Brown wrote: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 07:25:01PM +0100, Tomasz Figa wrote: > > Please do not forget that there might be some drivers not yet submited > > to mainline and mainline should not break them with an assumption that > > there are no such drivers. > > > > For example, there is an on-going work on an open source OpenGL > > implementation for the GPU in S3C6410, known as OpenFIMG. Currently it > > uses a little kernel module for low level hardware management > > (interrupts, contexts, locking, power management), involving clock > > gating and runtime power management, but a DRM driver is planned. > > As I said in the commit message for the patch you're following up on > I don't think that's a problem as it's pretty straightforward to add the > requisite hooks as part of adding the actual drivers. The power domain > framework is really easy to use so it's not like it should cause real > effort, if you can figure out how to drive a 3D graphics engine adding a > device to a power domain shouldn't be too hard. > > There will need to be arch/arm changes to add the platform devices and > hook up the clocks anyway so it's not like this is creating a need for > modifications. Indeed I'd suggest adding the arch/arm stuff as it gets > written anyway, even if the actual drivers are still a work in progress. > It's one less thing to carry out of tree and it means that updates like > this or like the clk API reworks that I'd expect to start appearing soon > will happen for free. Yeah, I'm okay with that, I just noted that there is more support for S3C6410 available than just what is present in mainline. Best regards, Tom -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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